poverty and institutional care

The research was referenced by columnist James Moore, in a piece about the case of Lavinia Woodward, the University of Oxford medical student likely to be spared a jail sentence after stabbing her boyfriend in the leg.

Becci Newton and Jonathan Buzzeo consider lessons from the evaluation of the Youth Contract for 16-17 year olds

Our March issue of criminal justice matters magazine is guest edited by the Centre's Research Director, Dr Roger Grimshaw. This special issue focuses on poverty and institutional care exploring the experiences of children in care, people in prisons and immigration detention. Contributors include Christopher Stacey, David Graham, Monica Dowling and Courtney Hougham.

Thanks to support from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies produced an evidence review on the links between poverty and institutional care, summarised in a collection of reviews published by the Foundation (Grimshaw et al., 2014; Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2014).

Guest edited by Dr Roger Grimshaw, this issue focuses on poverty and institutional care with contributions based on a roundtable held by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies in 2014, with Christopher Stacey, David Graham, Monica Dowling and Courtney Hougham offering their perspectives. Among the topical and comment articles, Auke Willems focuses on the request by a Belgium prisoner for euthnasia, and Dulcie Faure Walker reports on the informal economy in prison.

On November 17 we held an event entitled ‘ Prisoners and looked after children – a common cause?’ The roundtable was full to capacity, with many delegates representing organisations working directly with people in need. The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies' Research Director, Roger Grimshaw, presented the case for a new social policy on poverty that introduces a principle of reparation for the harms experienced by individuals.

Richard Bilton, reporting for Panorama, describes how, despite persistent claims by mainstream politicians to be 'on the side of hard-working people', the majority of the poor are in work. Whilst the cost of basics like food bills and clothes has risen by 28 per cent over the last six years, average wages have only gone up by 9 per cent. This has put huge pressures on household budgets.